Courtroom
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 26:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 237–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man, white hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a desk with papers visible, audible
- woman, blonde, wearing a light blouse and dark vest, seated visible, audible
- man, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie, seated at a table with inkwell and pen visible
- man, balding, wearing glasses and a suit and tie, seated at a table visible
- Seen happening
- The woman is visible speaking to the judge. [frame:1]
- The woman is visible speaking, looking to her right. [frame:2]
- Two men are visible seated at a table, one writing with a pen. [frame:3]
- The judge is visible listening, seated at his desk. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “He made a home here.” 26:50 · “Objection. Testimony given is immaterial.” 27:03
- Seen
- desk, papers, inkwell, pen, wooden wall paneling
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and formal; themes: justice, community, sacrifice, legal procedure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal courtroom setting
A courtroom scene where a woman testifies about her father's role in building a community and his death defending it, while a judge and two men at a table listen. The judge overrules an objection to her testimony.
“You are one of the plaintiffs in this case against Robert Weiland.” 26:36 · “Many years ago my father came here.” 26:43 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.
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